{"id":16874,"date":"2015-07-31T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=16874"},"modified":"2015-08-12T14:34:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:34:29","slug":"fivestarr-celebrating-fundraising-highlights-of-president-starrs-5-years-at-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2015\/07\/fivestarr-celebrating-fundraising-highlights-of-president-starrs-5-years-at-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"#FiveStarr: Celebrating fundraising highlights of President Starr\u2019s 5 years at Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16876\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/schol-july15.jpg\" alt=\"President's Scholarship Initiative\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/schol-july15.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/schol-july15-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago this summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/06\/baylor-family-turns-out-to-welcome-president-starr-on-his-first-day-in-office\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Starr took office<\/a> as Baylor\u2019s 14th president. Since those early days, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/09\/starr-calls-baylor-nation-to-support-100-million-student-scholarship-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">he challenged Baylor Nation to join together to support student scholarships<\/a>, Baylor has responded in record-setting numbers, providing for increased\u00a0scholarships, game-changing facilities and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe momentous outpouring of generosity that, remarkably, continues unabated is really a story about Baylor Nation and how thousands of alumni, faculty, staff and friends enthusiastically joined the bold vision &#8230; to propel the university and ensure that Baylor remains well positioned to \u2018meet the needs of the ages to come\u2019,\u201d Judge Starr said last year, remarking on\u00a0the many fundraising accomplishments that have occurred in recent years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2013\/04\/presidents-scholarship-initiative-meets-100-million-goal-five-months-early\/\" target=\"_blank\">The President\u2019s Scholarship Initiative<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; The first major initiative of President\u00a0Starr\u2019s tenure came from speaking with students who described their dreams for the university.\u00a0Judge Starr challenged Baylor Nation to raise $100 million in three years, and\u00a0the response was so overwhelming that the goal was met and exceeded four months ahead of schedule.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2014\/03\/baylor-nation-unites-for-most-successful-fundraising-year-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor&#8217;s\u00a0most successful fundraising years ever<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; Between February 2012 and February 2014, Baylor Nation gave a staggering $345.3 million dollars to the university, supporting\u00a0facilities such as\u00a0McLane Stadium and the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, scholarships (through the President\u2019s Scholarship Initiative) and other needs. In all, the Baylor family\u00a0gave $178 million to academics and $167 million to athletics during the record stretch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major gifts<\/strong> &#8212; The two largest gifts by living alumni in Baylor history served to launch two transformative facilities. In March 2012,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2012\/03\/mclane-family-gift-launches-move-toward-new-baylor-football-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\">a significant lead gift by Drayton McLane, BBA \u201958, and other members of the McLane family<\/a> spurred construction of McLane Stadium. That support held the record for Baylor&#8217;s\u00a0largest gift ever from a living alumnus until June 2013, when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2013\/06\/largest-gift-in-baylor-history-to-support-new-b-school-building-and-baylor-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Foster, BBA \u201979, gave the lead gift for what would become\u00a0the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation<\/a>. Numerous other generous donors have joined Foster and McLane in helping\u00a0change the face of the Baylor campus for generations to come.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Baylor family gets involved<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0Major gifts grab the headlines, but it\u2019s\u00a0also\u00a0noteworthy just how many members of the Baylor\u00a0family\u00a0have pitched in to support the university we love. Between 2012 and 2014, approximately 18,000 people made their first gift to Baylor, an outpouring Judge Starr called \u201ctruly significant.\u201d Even faculty and staff have gotten involved; over the past year, more than 1,200 Baylor employees &#8212; almost half of all faculty and staff\u00a0&#8212; gave back to the university, raising $1.2 million for various needs across campus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The unprecedented momentum Baylor is experiencing has led to countless other gifts by thousands of generous members of the Baylor family. The transformational gift by Matt, BA &#8217;12, and Carl Lindner to establish an endowment for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/mediacommunications\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=154576\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Film and Digital Media<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2015\/04\/construction-begins-on-fifth-street-renovation-including-new-fountain-on-fountain-mall\/\" target=\"_blank\">the upcoming Fifth Street renovation with its\u00a0Rosenbalm Fountain<\/a>\u00a0are two of the latest examples of donors turning Baylor dreams into a reality.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been an incredible five-year run under Judge Starr\u2019s leadership at Baylor, and the momentum continues as we work together to\u00a0meet the goals of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/profuturis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Futuris<\/a>. We\u00a0can only imagine what exciting new projects will\u00a0become reality in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, President Starr!<\/p>\n<p><em>[This piece is in honor of our summer-long celebration of President Ken Starr\u2019s five years of service to Baylor University \u2014 something we regard as serious #FiveStarr excellence. We\u2019ll be tracking #FiveStarr on Twitter and Instagram for your best Judge Starr memories.]<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sociable\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago this summer, Ken Starr took office as Baylor\u2019s 14th president. Since those early days, when he challenged Baylor Nation to join together to support student scholarships, Baylor has responded in record-setting numbers, providing for increased\u00a0scholarships, game-changing facilities and more. \u201cThe momentous outpouring of generosity that, remarkably, continues unabated is really a story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}